The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780571226344 (0571226345)
Publish date: January 17th 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Paulin proceeds without prelude to his purpose; an illumination of meanings and mechanisms of poems spanning hundreds of years, many sharing his Irish heritage. He reflects on the effects of acoustic patterns and the physicality of reading, as well as on biographical episodes and contextual detail r...